Lamentations 5:7

A Request For Mercy

⁶ We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. ⁷ Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have borne their iniquities.
⁸ Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

Bear Their Iniquity

No

Sin

Jeremiah 16:12

and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Ezekiel 18:2

"What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

Genesis 42:13

And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me."

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be."

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the LORD: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more."

Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?